Summary: We have once again sifted through the bulky steel filing cabinets in the SFMOMA offices to bring you another unpublished artist talk from our vast archive of cassette tapes, recordings of public programs spanning more than 30 years. The museum has embarked on a project to digitize these recordings and publish them online. This episode of SFMOMA Artcasts shares, unedited and in its entirety, an artist talk by photographer Carrie Mae Weems that was given in June 1993 in conjunction with a retrospective of her work at SFMOMA. Weems reflects on her Africa series, The Kitchen Table Series, Then What? Photographs and Folklore, and other works, describing how she aims to complicate preconceived notions of ethnicity and its role in American culture. The talk is briefly introduced by Sandra Phillips, senior curator of photography at SFMOMA, and concludes with a question-and-answer session with the audience. To hear more archival SFMOMA public programs, visit our SoundCloud page at soundcloud.com/SFMOMA, where new selections are being uploaded regularly.
